Protests

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him. — read the full passage →

Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain, — read the full passage →

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

But when they perceived that he was a Jew, all with one voice for a time of about two hours cried out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. — read the full passage →

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights— I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations. — read the full passage →

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.” — read the full passage →

They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded. — read the full passage →

He will not strive, nor shout; neither will anyone hear his voice in the streets. — read the full passage →

For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? — read the full passage →

Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few. — read the full passage →

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and the love of God. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!” — read the full passage →

Paul said, “I didn’t know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’” — read the full passage →

The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge. — read the full passage →

Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea. — read the full passage →

Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law. — read the full passage →

“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; don’t fear the reproach of men, neither be dismayed at their insults. — read the full passage →

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer; — read the full passage →

The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.

but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee. — read the full passage →

Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. — read the full passage →

Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth. There shall be nothing of value among them. — read the full passage →

But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress. — read the full passage →

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward. — read the full passage →

At that time Yahweh said to me, “Cut two stone tablets like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood. — read the full passage →

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, — read the full passage →

for our God is a consuming fire. — read the full passage →

On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her. — read the full passage →

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.” — read the full passage →

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.

He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Free him, and let him go.” — read the full passage →

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd. — read the full passage →

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. — read the full passage →

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life. — read the full passage →

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. — read the full passage →

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. — read the full passage →

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” — read the full passage →

Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones! — read the full passage →

Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass. — read the full passage →

You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me. — read the full passage →

They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon. — read the full passage →

But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten. — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God. — read the full passage →

The work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever. — read the full passage →

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied. — read the full passage →

By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone. — read the full passage →

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil. — read the full passage →

Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me. — read the full passage →

Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity? — read the full passage →

If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents. — read the full passage →

“Hear, our God; for we are despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity; — read the full passage →

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance. — read the full passage →

For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.” — read the full passage →

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God. — read the full passage →

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously. — read the full passage →

Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up. — read the full passage →

so that the sights that you see with your eyes will drive you mad. — read the full passage →

among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. — read the full passage →

‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him. — read the full passage →

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. — read the full passage →

but I will send a fire on Moab, and it will devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet; — read the full passage →

Therefore will I also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them. — read the full passage →

The burden of Egypt: “Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst. — read the full passage →

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes. — read the full passage →

Moreover Yahweh answered Job, — read the full passage →

He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!” — read the full passage →

The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream. — read the full passage →

Who, when he was cursed, didn’t curse back. When he suffered, didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;

The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men. — read the full passage →

They said to Joshua, “Truly Yahweh has delivered into our hands all the land. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us.” — read the full passage →

He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. — read the full passage →

But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people. — read the full passage →

being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. — read the full passage →

He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God. — read the full passage →

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea. — read the full passage →

The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, no one considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil. — read the full passage →

You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle. — read the full passage →

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires. — read the full passage →

He who corrects a mocker invites insult. He who reproves a wicked man invites abuse. — read the full passage →

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion. — read the full passage →

Though princes sit and slander me, your servant will meditate on your statutes. — read the full passage →

For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you. — read the full passage →

My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him. — read the full passage →

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully. — read the full passage →

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing? — read the full passage →

For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple. — read the full passage →

There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. — read the full passage →